Charlotte

Yuu Otosaka cheats through school by briefly possessing other students. Nao Tomori exposes him and recruits him for a council that tracks adolescents with unstable powers before gangs and labs exploit them. Missions show that abilities fade with age and carry costs the users cannot see until it is late. A family death collapses Yuu’s posture of control and pulls him into a spiral that ends only when friends insist on purpose. A risky plan emerges. If one person can seize powers permanently, he can remove targets from the board, ending the market for them. Travel becomes triage as Yuu collects skills, injuries, and trauma that erode memory and self. The group keeps him moving and alive long enough to finish. What began as petty advantage turns into a road map for survival that saves strangers at the price of clarity about who did it.